When I woke up this morning I was HANGRY (despite my late-night noshing..almond butter, anyone?). So, I started my morning with this GLORIOUS bowl of oats. Nom nom nom.

Into the pot went:

oats

Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze

an itty bitty banana

mixed up with Vega Sport vanilla protein powder (after cooking)

topped with: almond buttah and LOTS of berries. I was craving them, can you tell?

Roooooarrr I love how green the Vega makes my oats:) It’s like a pop of color in my morning!

Thankfully, it’s a beauuutiful sunny day! It makes up for the obnoxious amount of work I have to do today.

The view out my window.

I’m too lazy to go outside in the freezing cold first thing in the morning;)

During breakfast, I read another two chapters or so of Crazy Sexy Diet. I’m addicted! It is SO good, and it’s encouraging me to try out more raw foods. Did I mention that Kris Karr is hilarious? I love a girl with spunk!

I highly recommend it to anyone interested in a healthier life, being vegetarian, vegan, raw, preventing disease, or trying to cure disease.

Slash I recommend this book to EVERYONE. It’s like The China Study in layman’s terms, which is what our country (and our world) needs.

Did you know more than two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese? The stats are even scarier for kids under the age of FIVE. Something needs to be done. Kris to the rescue! 🙂

Since my wisdom teeth have been KILLING me as of late (I’ve been needing to get them out for, what, 2 months now?), I’ve been up on the ibuprofen. I woke up at 4am to drilling pain in my mouth and sprinted downstairs to get the bottle.

The on-call surgeon offered to prescribe me narcotics but I didn’t want to get loopy. Instead, he’s letting me up the ibuprofen and add Tylenol, but I’m just sticking with the regular dose of the ‘profen. Less chemicals in my body = the better.

So, oatmeal, quinoa flakes, and soft fruit have been my food of choice. And sweet potaters. I can never get enough;)

Last night I tried to make a pizza-like quinoa flakes combo, but it tasted AWFUL. I added nooch, tomato paste, and italian seasoning, hoping for a pizza-like flavor.

That’s avocado and beans for healthy fats + more protein. I was sad when all of the ‘cado was covered in my nasty concoction. Boooo, at least that was most of what I scarfed down!

To make up for my experiment, I cooked up another pot of quinoa flakes and added my mama’s pear-sauce, raisins, and beans. Ahhh, much better:)

Before that, I took an AMAZING spin class. I’m addicted to spinning, and it’s been my favorite group class along with Body Pump since last year. The teacher was adorable, must have been in her fifties or sixties, and she was a POWERHOUSE. From a little lady, you would not expect such spunk. Love it.

If you haven’t tried spinning yet, I highly recommend it! It’s so much fun, and it makes me feel like supawomannnnn;)

That’s all for now! Time for me to go to church:) Today’s a rest day (at least that’s the plan), and I didn’t bother to shower this morning. At least I did my makeup and put on a cute oufit, right? Sorry God, it’s not you, it’s me.

On another note, one of my New Year’s rezzies is to improve my relationship with God. During this trying time, I’ve been finding a lot of comfort in prayer and in the prayers of others. I’m hoping to read the Bible this year, from cover to cover:)

Have you had your wisdom teeth out? How did you deal with the pain? Slash did you do anything funny after the surgery (vicodin ha)?

I better do something funny. I told my sister to videotape me. Expect a hilarious video a few weeks from now:)

44 responses to “You Spin Me Right Round”

I am a spinning instructor, and I love it!! I love teaching new peeps. I love making people sweat. I love making people hate me during the class, but love me afterwards. You will have so much fun teaching it!

Good luck with the wisdom teeth! I have had all four of mine taken out and according to my mom, I was pretty hilarious on the car ride home. 😉 Make sure you ICE, ICE, ICE. The more you do it, the faster the swelling will go down!

That is so awesome that you are going to teach spinning! I want to come to one of your classes!!!

You have to post the video of you doing crazy stuff! That book you are reading sounds amazing!! I LOVE SPINNING!! Seriously every single one of those benefits is so so true! Your oats look amazing! Bummer about the messed up recipe:(
I can’t believe you saw a guy eat two of those garbage plates!!
Shape and Women’s health are my fave’s too!

i am dying to try spinning! but i dont belong to a proper gym.. so that poses a problem! i haven’t gotten my wisdom teeth out although my bro did and he was quite funny to watch.. i did have to get two teeth pulled once- OUCH… my mouth was so numb I couldn’t speak and it was HILARIOUS

Eeek Wisdom Teeth stink! I hope you have no problems. I had mine out in high school and it wasn’t terrible until I got an infection =( Just make sure after surgery you go home and rest. I got…er…sick and it was good we got home when we did since we didn’t have a plastic bag in the car. Good luck!

I got my wisdom teeth taken out when I was a sophomore in college, it was the worst. I don’t remember the car ride home but once the drugs wore off I was in agony! The worst part was not being able to eat solid food 😦 But I didn’t get dry sockets, I was careful not to. My discomfort lasted for a week or so but it was worth it to get those suckers out!

those blueberries in your oats look so good and fresh – i don’t think there’s anything better!! bummer about the quinoa – it definitely sounded like a good plan, though.
And thanks for the heads-up on that book. It sounds awesome, and definitely eye-opening. I’ll need to keep my eyes peeled for it 🙂
Good luck with your wisdom teeth! Are yougetting them out soon?

Yummy breakfast, especially those blueberries! It’s so cold in Chicago too. It makes me not want to do anything. I got my wisdom teeth out a couple months ago. I had been in so much pain for months before they finally were removed. Honestly, the entire week after the surgery was horrible. But now I’m so glad they’re out. I don’t know if I did anything funny, but I was on so much vicodin, so I’m sure I did.

I haven’t tried spinning, but I’ve heard so many good things about it!

Hi! Just came across your blog! Nice!!! I’ve not had my wisdom teeth out, but have been told I need to. Hope it’s not too bad. I’m a Christian, so deepening my relationship is very important to me too and is also something I truly want to work on this year. I’ve done x-biking before, but never spinning. Have a great day! 🙂

I love spinning! I actually teach it too! I’m going to try RPM (the les mills version of it), have you tried that? I think your New Year’s Resolution to become closer to God is truly inspirational. If you haven’t already read The Shack, I recommend that you do. It helps to explain the power of God’s love so that we can understand it in this day and age. Also “Heaven is for Real” is a cute and easy read that helped me reconnect with my faith. God Bless

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Chef Katelyn is a blog dedicated to the lifestyle of finding health, happiness, and inner peace through eating, exercising, and living well. I believe that what we put into our bodies, how we use them, and how we choose to enrich our lives directly effect our health mentally, physically, and emotionally. I hope you find some this balance with me while I continue my journey every day :)